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SCA: security update for TinyMCE, django-tinymce, tinymce, tinymce/tinymce (GHSA-w9jx-4g6g-rp7x)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419841

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - TinyMCE is an open source rich text editor. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in
 TinyMCE’s content parsing code. This allowed specially crafted noscript elements containing malicious code
 to be executed when that content was loaded into the editor. This vulnerability has been patched in
 TinyMCE 7.2.0, TinyMCE 6.8.4 and TinyMCE 5.11.0 LTS by ensuring that content within noscript elements are
 properly parsed. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
 (CVE-2024-38357)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w9jx-4g6g-rp7x

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 419841

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.33

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38357

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38357

cwe: CWE-79